Interpreting Points on a Coordinate Plane

In this video lesson, students pay particular attention to choices about what axes represent and the scale used on each axis. Graphs need to present information clearly and legibly to be useful for visualizing relationships between quantities. Students learn to make these choices purposefully when plotting points and to consider the decisions that have been made when reading and interpreting the coordinates of points from a graph. They interpret and label axes appropriately to clearly communicate their correspondence with the quantities in a problem. They reason abstractly and quantitatively as they interpret vertical distance in a coordinate plane in context (MP2).

Grade 6, Episode 23: Unit 7, Lesson 13 | Illustrative Math